Born and raised in East Berlin, Scheer pursued music at the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium, mastering piano, drums and vocal performance before leaving school in the eleventh grade and experimenting with commercials and amateur filmmaking. A casting by Leander Haussmann led to his screen debut in Sonnenallee (1999) and subsequently to a long tenure at Schauspiel Bochum, where he appeared in prod…